Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Journalist; politics, history, rights, conflict, evirnmnt&climate, culture, data; Books Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji; Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment
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1 week ago |
outlookindia.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
North East India North East India Tonyei Phawang and his family eat in Myanmar and sleep in India. Daily. Their dining room lies in Myanmar, bedroom in India, and the kitchen, should there be a physical border between the nations, would have the boundary running through it. The 1,643-km India-Myanmar border still exists largely on maps.
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1 week ago |
thediplomat.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
A deadly war is going on in India’s tribal heartland, as the government aims to eliminate one of the world’s longest-surviving communist insurgencies. Subscribe for ads-free reading Over May 17 and 18, hundreds of Indian security forces began encircling Gundekot village in the hilly and densely forested Abujmarh region of central India’s Chhattisgarh state. A group of 35 Maoist guerillas, including the top leader of India’s largest outlawed organization, was camping there.
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1 week ago |
tribunecontentagency.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Over May 17 and 18, hundreds of Indian security forces began encircling Gundekot village in the hilly and densely forested Abujmarh region of central India’s Chhattisgarh state. A group of 35 Maoist guerillas, including the top leader of India’s largest outlawed organization, was camping there. Security forces were accompanied by some of the rebels who had surrendered in recent weeks and had knowledge of the difficult terrain. Gun fights started from the morning of May 19.
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2 weeks ago |
outlookindia.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
National Wars with Myanmar and Bangladesh are unlikely, but political uncertainties at the trijunction of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia increase India’s border security challenges, as China makes measured moves to gain strategic ground Photo: Illustration: Vikas Thakur Photo: Illustration: Vikas Thakur On February 27, a rather intriguing political development played out in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, India’s northeast state sharing borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. Two...
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3 weeks ago |
tribunecontentagency.com | Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
During the 2024 parliamentary election campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a video advertisement in which a female student is seen expressing her gratitude to Modi for halting the war between Ukraine and Russia to get Indian students in Ukraine evacuated. “Modi-ji ne war rukwa di, Papa, (Mr. Modi halted the war, father),” she is seen telling her father, her eyes soaked in tears of happiness and relief.
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Hindu, Bengali, Secular: Didi’s Different Identities As Bengal enters a phase of conflicting identity politics, Banerjee attempts to play a balancing game, albeit with a majoritarian tilt. My latest for @thewire_in https://t.co/B2e1s6GNOM
My 2nd story on Murshidabad violence: Locals say spread of rumours with a communal angle and prompt mobilisation of Muslim teens reflect planning, while mystery shrouds allegation that Hindutva activist clad in BSF uniform looted and gutted Muslim homes https://t.co/HeiVGaRmhm
Scars of #Murshidabad: Ground Report Irrespective of the various ‘outsider’ theories, the selective targeting of Hindu properties in mixed population areas bears telltale signs of the locals’ involvement. And this takes away the comfort of trust. https://t.co/9bdbFvW4eN
